Natalie Goldberg Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Natalie Goldberg quotes, Natalie Goldberg sayings, and Natalie Goldberg proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Natalie Goldberg
This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait. Natalie Goldberg
Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak. Natalie Goldberg
Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Natalie Goldberg
A writer must say yes to life. Natalie Goldberg
We are each a concert reverberating with our whole lives and reflecting and amplifying the world around us. Natalie Goldberg
Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table. Natalie Goldberg
Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth. Natalie Goldberg
Be tough in the way a blade of grass is: rooted, willing to lean, and at peace with what is around it. Natalie Goldberg
Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind. Natalie Goldberg
Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out. Natalie Goldberg
Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it Natalie Goldberg
The muscles of writing are not so visible, but they are just as powerful: determination, attention, curiosity, a passionate heart. Natalie Goldberg
We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us. Natalie Goldberg
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Natalie Goldberg
Whatever your life, it is urging you to record it--to embrace the crumbs with the cake. It's why so many of us want to write memoir. Natalie Goldberg
We have turned so fulllheartedly to the memoir form. We have an intuition that it can save us. Writing is the act of reaching across the abyss of isolation to share and reflect. Natalie Goldberg
The muscles of writing are not so visible, but they are just as powerful: determination, attention, curiosity, a passionate heart. Natalie Goldberg